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FAITHSt. Barnabas Charities &WORKEaster 2015 115th Founder’s Day Honors Noted Author, Political Commentator Let’s have lunch and talk about YourLegacy Consider a planned gift to St. Barnabas Charities and help an organization that improves the lives of others. Planned giving can help you save money, make money or both. St. Barnabas Charities manages millions of dollars in gift annuities. The minimum donation is just $5,000. Charitable Gift Annuities to St. Barnabas will: • Provide you with a steady fixed income for life. • Ensure annual benefits with better returns than CDs. • Give you a charitable tax deduction. • Allow you to avoid capital gains taxes when you fund the gift using stocks. • Assist patients who depend upon the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. Setting up a Charitable Gift Annuity is simple. To discuss the possibilities, at no obligation, call St. Barnabas Charities at 724-625-3770 | www.StBarnabasCharities.com FAITH&WORK St. Barnabas Charities Easter 2015 StBarnabasHealthSystem.com St. Barnabas Charities, Inc. Board of Trustees Contents Ellen Bramson, Chair Valerie Day Wilden, President/Secretary J.D. Turco, Treasurer 4 A Message from William V. Day Natalie McMurtrie 5 Founder’s Day Honors Dr. Charles Marion Piotrowski Krauthammer St. Barnabas Officers 6 Brain Health Program Unites Famed William V. Day, EdD, President, St. Barnabas Health System Neurosurgeon and St. Barnabas Douglas W. Day, President, St. Barnabas Communities 8 Arbors Resident Begins Second Karen Tabacchi, President, St. Barnabas Clinical Services James D. Turco, Senior Vice President, St. Barnabas Health System Century of Life! Margaret Horton, Assistant Vice President, St. Barnabas Health System 10 St. Barnabas Charities Free Care Fund Valerie Day Wilden, Assistant Vice President, St. Barnabas Health System 12 News Briefs St. Barnabas Charities, Inc. 14 Giving in Memory Community Advisory Committee Members 15 Donors Brooks M. Bartlett, Chairman, Physical Therapy Consultant Dr. Richard A. Morledge, Vice Chairman Pastor Emeritus, First Presbyterian Church of Bakerstown Richard Andrus, Willard M. Lewis Co. J. Douglas Austin, James Austin Co. Harry G. Austin III, James Austin Co. Michael Bartlett, Dailys Paul G. Benedum Jr., Benedum Interests Let’s have lunch and talk about Ellen Bramson, WPXI-TV (Retired) Faith & Work is published quarterly by St. Barnabas Charities for donors John S. Carpenter, Glass Box Group, LLC and supporters of St. Barnabas Charities. J. Victor Conrad, PINNACLE Financial Strategies Bob Crnjarich, Cowden Associates Editorial Board and Writers Walter DeForest, DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis & Berardinelli Nancy Brem and Valerie Day Wilden The Honorable Hal English, Pennsylvania 30th Legislative District Kristi Festa, UPMC For Life Valerie Day Wilden, Editor YourLegacy Kimberly Geyer, Geyer Construction Richard Kaminsky, Subway Restaurants Nancy Brem, Production Manager Consider a planned gift to St. Barnabas Charities Charley Kennedy, Fiducia Group LLC Donna Herrle, Designer William Knox, The HDH Group Inc. Rick Armstrong, Ramon Cordero and Kathy Rudolph, Photographers Ralph LeDonne, Ward 6 Councilman and help an organization that improves the lives of others. Natalie McMurtrie, WPXI-TV Reed & Witting, Printer Robert Meisel, PNC Bank (Retired) Cindy Parknavy, Parknavy Advertising Planned giving can help you save money, make money or both. Gabriel Pellathy, U.S. Steel Marion Piotrowski, Northern Connection John Posteraro, Howard Hanna On the cover St. Barnabas Charities manages millions of dollars in gift annuities. The minimum donation is just $5,000. James C. Roddey, Former Allegheny County Chief Executive Jennifer Sadlowe, Kronos Pulitzer prize winning Charitable Gift Annuities to St. Barnabas will: FAITHSt. Barnabas Charities &WORKEaster 2015 Russell Scheller, Richland EMS author and nationally C. Matthew Schellhaas, Schellhaas Funeral Home respected political Susan Mussman Schwartz, K&L Gates (Retired) • Provide you with a steady fixed income for life. commentator Dr. Charles Kathleen M. Seaton, RE/MAX Select Realty • Ensure annual benefits with better returns than CDs. Matthew Shaner, Shaner Investments Krauthammer will receive • Give you a charitable tax deduction. Winfield Smathers, Shorebridge Wealth Management the St. Barnabas Hance Jud D. Stewart, ARMSTRONG Award at the 115th • Allow you to avoid capital gains taxes when you fund the gift using stocks. John S. Turnbull, Daniell-Sapp-Boorn Associates Inc. (Retired) Founder’s Day celebration Kathryn Turnbull, The HDH Group Inc. (Retired) April 30, 2015 at the • Assist patients who depend upon the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. The Honorable Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania’s Speaker of the House Scott Vidovich, First Commonwealth Financial Corp. Pittsburgh Marriott North, Kendra White, UPMC Health Plan Cranberry Township. See 115th Founder’s Day Setting up a Charitable Gift Annuity is simple. To discuss the possibilities, at no obligation, Honors Noted Author, story on page 5. Political Commentator call St. Barnabas Charities at 724-625-3770 | www.StBarnabasCharities.com COMMON SENSE: It’s better to give than to receive. UNCOMMON SENSE: It’s better to give than to give back. True generosity involves giving, not just giving back. It Unconditional giving is like parental living at its best. means giving with no expectation of repayment. Giving Good parents don’t love their children because the back is a zero-sum equation: We give back what we children love them first. They don’t “love back” their received and the world is not better off than it was children. They love their children – period. Even though before we received it. True giving means the world is the children at times may seem unlovable. Just as God improved by the sum of our giving. It is better off loves us! because we are here. The good news is that we don’t have to give our fortunes to give generously. There are many ways we can give, even though we may be lacking in financial resources. We can give talent, skill, time, or love. We can mentor, A Message from William V. Day coach, advise, guide, or serve someone as a role model. These are all avenues of giving. People who view their stewardship in a role of giving Giving back is not, in itself, a bad thing. But when we back miss the point. To be significant in our world we graduate from giving back to just giving, we arrive at the must focus on giving, period. Not giving back. Not zenith of true pleasure. Go there and see for yourself! giving as a payment. Just giving because there is a need we can fill and we want to fill it. God bless, WVD Always give without remembering. Always receive [email protected] Graduatingwithout forgetting. That’s a fromwonderful idea! Giving rewards the giver much more than giving back. The most gratifying reward comes when we give not ng Giv because we have to. Not because someone asks us to. ivi ing G B a Not because we owe it. But rather out of our hearts k c c k a filled with gratitude. B G g i v n i i n v i People whose hearts are full of gratitude tend to be g G G more positive, generous, and innovative. They also tend g i v n i i to be easier with whom to get along. And therefore, n v i g G B more successful and influential. a c k k c a B G g i v n i i n v i g 4 FAITH & WORK G BE INSPIRED! Celebrate St. Barnabas’ 115th Founder’s Day with Dr. Charles Krauthammer ore than 400 friends and Dr. Krauthammer joins a distinguished A popular feature of the event will be supporters of St. Barnabas roster of Founder’s Day speakers and the Wine Cellar Lottery with more than Mwill join together to honor Hance Awardees including President 200 select wines, many celebrity signed. the memory of St. Barnabas founder Gerald R. Ford, First Lady Barbara Bush, Gouverneur P. Hance and the life-time actor Charlton Heston, Vice President Dan All proceeds of the Founder’s achievements of Dr. Charles Krauthammer Quayle, inspirational leaders the Rev. Day observance benefit the on April 30, 2015. Norman Vincent Peale and Dr. Robert St. Barnabas Free Care Fund, Schuller, community leader Elsie Hillman which last year provided Dr. Krauthammer will receive the prestigious and many more. $6,652,089 in charity care. St. Barnabas Hance Award at the 115th Founder’s Day celebration at the Pittsburgh The April 30th celebration includes an To purchase tickets call St. Barnabas Marriott North and then speak on The exclusive VIP Photo Reception at 5:30 p.m., Charities at 724-625-3770 or contact Obama Legacy and the 2016 Race. a Silent Auction opening at 6 p.m. and St.BarnabasCharities.com. Seating featuring exciting vacation get-a-ways and is limited. An extraordinary American, Dr. sports packages, all climaxing with the Krauthammer is a trauma survivor who award presentation and Dr. Krauthammer’s has carved out a memorable career as a speech at the 7:30 p.m. dinner. Prices board certified psychiatrist recognized range from $300 and $350 for the FOUNDER’S DAY for his research, as a best selling author dinner and silent auction reception to and as a political commentator in print $800 and $850 for the VIP Photo Reception APRIL 30, 2015 and television. He was awarded the and dinner. Pittsburgh Marriott North Cranberry Township Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated column. Signature Sponsor FAITH & WORK 5 Brain Health Program Unites Famed Neurosurgeon and St. Barnabas Dr. Joseph Maroon (center) heads up the “The Cognitive Brain Health Program” team of Jeff Bost, neurosurgical physician assistant, and Karen Tabacchi, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services for St. Barnabas Health System. orld-renowned neurosurgeon The goals of this initiative, according to “We don’t have to accept that conditions Dr. Joseph Maroon has Dr. Maroon, are to provide scientifically- like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and Wpartnered with St.